Driving Urban Transitions to
a sustainable future
The DUT Partnership steps up the game to tackle urban challenges. Through research and innovation and capacity building, we enable local authorities and municipalities, service and infrastructure providers, and citizens to translate global strategies into local action.
We develop the skills and tools to make urban change happen and boost the urgently needed urban transformations towards a sustainable future with enhanced quality of life in cities.
DUT Call 2022
The second stage of DUT Call 2022 is OPEN
The second stage of DUT Call 2022 is OPEN. The first stage of DUT Call 2022 closed in December 2022.
The second joint call of the DUT Partnership – the DUT Call 2023 – opens on September and offers opportunities for transnational and transdisciplinary cooperation along and across the three DUT Transition Pathways. In addition, a portfolio of measures is offered to strengthen the community and build capacities in all stakeholder groups, networking and learning across countries, sectors and disciplines. Activities include furthermore provision of scientific evidence and recommendations to policy making on all levels as well as valorisation of research results to allow urban dwellers to experience how a future neighbourhood may look and feel.
LEARN MOREThe Transition Pathways to a Sustainable Future
Our future relies on tackling complex grand challenges here and now, many of which must be addressed within cities and by urban communities. The DUT Partnership therefore aims to address these challenges with an integrated approach to offer decision makers in municipalities, companies and society the means to act and enable the necessary urban transformations. In order to support cities along their specific strategies, the partnership focuses on three critical urban sectors and their interrelationships.
Circular Urban Economies
The Circular Urban Economies Transition Pathway wants to foster the design of urban places haracterized by regenerative urbanism. By this we mean liveable, inclusive, green communities and neighbourhoods that are sustained by circular urban economies and resource flows.
Circular Urban Economies
The Circular Urban Economies Transition Pathway wants to foster the design of urban places haracterized by regenerative urbanism. By this we mean liveable, inclusive, green communities and neighbourhoods that are sustained by circular urban economies and resource flows.
LEARN MOREPositive Energy Districts
The Positive Energy Districts transition pathway aims to optimise the local energy system through energy efficiency, flexibility and local energy generation from renewables in actions towards the (urban) energy transition and climate- neutrality and mainstreaming these actions in urban planning processes.
Positive Energy Districts
The Positive Energy Districts transition pathway aims to optimise the local energy system through energy efficiency, flexibility and local energy generation from renewables in actions towards the (urban) energy transition and climate- neutrality and mainstreaming these actions in urban planning processes.
LEARN MORE15-minute City
The 15-minute City transition pathway focusses on rethinking the existing mobility system and urban morphology to encourage sustainable mobility choices, redistribute urban space and reorganise our daily activities so to make our cities more climate neutral, liveable and inclusive.
15-minute City
The 15-minute City transition pathway focusses on rethinking the existing mobility system and urban morphology to encourage sustainable mobility choices, redistribute urban space and reorganise our daily activities so to make our cities more climate neutral, liveable and inclusive.
LEARN MOREJoin our events
PoP Community Workshop Series
29 March 2023, 10:00-12:00 CET, onlineWorkshop series on key gaps through a set of capacity building activities for public officers and practitioners passionate about the energy transition processes and urban transformation.
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How to strengthen national governance for achieving the Cities Mission
20 March, 14:00-16:00 (CET), onlineAre you interested in how to strengthen national governance for achieving the Cities Mission? Join our first webinar on good practice cases from Austria, France, Greece and Hungary.
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Urban Living Labs: Experiments for designing radical urban transitions
28 March, 14:00-17:00 (CET), onlineExperimental approaches like ULLs can facilitate the co-design of radical transitions towards greater liveability in urban areas. DUT invites urban living lab managers to join the workshop “Experiments for designing radical urban transitions” to exchange perspectives, experiences and ideas.
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AGORA Strategic Dialogue
February 2023, onlineThree AGORA Strategic Dialogues will take place in Febuary.
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Open stakeholder consultation
9 January - 13 FebruaryWe invite you as urban change maker to help us prioritize challenges and identify knowledge gaps to be addressed in the next DUT call.
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PED webinar series
January-February 2023, onlineWe invite stakeholders in the energy transition processes and all interested in driving urban transformation to join a DUT webinar series on key elements for accelerating the implementation of Positive Energy Districts.
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Info Day 1: DUT Call 2022 (online)
20 September 2022, 10:00 - 13:30The Info Day 1 for the DUT Call 2022 is an opportunity to learn more about the call and to ask questions to the call secretariat about the application process and the next steps.
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DUT Launch Conference
4-5 October 2022, BrusselsThe DUT Partnership will be officially launched in Brussels with a series of interesting sessions and key participants.
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Info Day 2: DUT Call 2022 (online) - Project Pitches
18 October 2022, onlineThe DUT Call 2022 Info Day 2 is an opportunity to learn more about the call and to ask questions to the call secretariat about the application process and the next steps. Matchmaking and project pitches to find adequate partners will be organised. More info coming soon.
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DUT Call 2022 - National Events
September - October 2022The official launch of the Partnership taking place in Brussels on 4 & 5 October will be accompanied by a series of national events in September.
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Urban Transitions Pathways for Cities and Territories
30 November - 2 December 2022, Bergamo, ItalyENEA Smart Energy Division (TERIN-SEN) organizes a three-day event on URBAN TRANISTION PATHWAYS in Bergamo innovation district Kilometro Rosso in order to create synergies for the development of urban and territorial contexts among national and international networks.
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Online workshop: How to facilitate the transition towards sustainable urban logistics?
13 December 2022, 13:00-15:00 CET, onlineShare views from city authorities and logistics practitioners on challenges and opportunities they face when implementing sustainable urban logistics and identify opportunities the DUT program can support for implementation of innovative solution of urban logistics in the online workshop!
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AGORA Thematic Dialogue: Making Space for regenerative urbanism
14 December 2022, 13.00-17.00 CET, onlineJoin the discussions around soil, restoration and land-use, biophilic design and architecture, and the role of cultural and creative sectors in the transition.
MORE INFOFor the project results and more information about our wider activities
you can find on the JPI Urban Europe website